Secret Song

Harlan Brothers
Curated Newsletters
2 min readSep 25, 2022

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That distant spot
Where the dreamer’s wont to gaze
That shot in the dark
In a giant empty space
A trusting step, a leap of faith

Just land on the tip of the top
And teeter though you may
The point is just to point the way

We’ll go
We’ll follow, we’ll lead
We’ll dance along the way
Two steps at a time

A secret song, a silent verse
The words are hard to find
Its twisting turning melody
Winds the wheels of time…

A trip, a trap
A treat for all to see
The bull in the shop
A ship up in a tree
A marble floats across a starry sea

So land on the edge of the ledge
And stumble though you may
The waxing moon can point the way

We’ll go
We’ll go extra slow
And then we’ll zoom away
Humming along to a

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Harlan Brothers
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Written by Harlan Brothers

Mathematician | Composer | Educator | Inventor | Member New England Science Writers | Editor of Science Spectrum | www.harlanjbrothers.com

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